4x4 ?
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4x4 ?
Guys/Gals,
I will be towing my friends 33lft Travel Trailer to a campground next weekend.
I really don't use 4x4 very often, but I do rotate my hubs from auto to lock every week just to exercise the hub and to keep it from freezing up on me.
My question is this: The Travel Trailer will be on soft grass. I will need to move it in reverse up a pretty good sized hill...I do not want my tranny to spew out tranny fluid like my friends does every time he moves it in reverse..Can you put the 4x4 in low and go in reverse. My friend told me, that once you engage Reverse...The 4x4 does not work anylonger...
Just wondering...Don't want to hurt my 02 Ex..
Big Rig
I will be towing my friends 33lft Travel Trailer to a campground next weekend.
I really don't use 4x4 very often, but I do rotate my hubs from auto to lock every week just to exercise the hub and to keep it from freezing up on me.
My question is this: The Travel Trailer will be on soft grass. I will need to move it in reverse up a pretty good sized hill...I do not want my tranny to spew out tranny fluid like my friends does every time he moves it in reverse..Can you put the 4x4 in low and go in reverse. My friend told me, that once you engage Reverse...The 4x4 does not work anylonger...
Just wondering...Don't want to hurt my 02 Ex..
Big Rig
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The 4x4, if it works at all, will work forward, reverse, up, down, whatever. Using the low range will make the torque application more sensitive and you should be able to back the trailer up better. I use it in 4 low to back my trailer into my yard over a curb, with the 6.0 in 4hi, it doesn't creep over curbs very well.
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Originally Posted by Big Rig
My friend told me, that once you engage Reverse...The 4x4 does not work anylonger...
Things people say...
Actually, on solid ground, all that you would need, Big Rig, is the Low Range capabilities. But, still, anyway...the 4WD will continue to work in reverse.
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remember if you are using 4-LOW and you have an auto that it is possible to get that tranny fluid very hot. The very nature of the torque converter slippage to enable auto's to idle at a light makes for big time heat build-up while slowly backing into a space. Plus zero airflow over the rad and tranny cooler and it's easy to get the temp over 250. I used 4-LOW all the time in 2WD, but figure out your path, and try to get your TT placed with too much jockeying around, or she'll get warm, good luck !
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